this man does the sums that tell the government how much money they have to spend. but why do they sometimes get it wrong? we ll ask the boss of indepent organisation the obr, richard hughes. it s michael gove s job to make sure the chance of a good life is spread fairly across the land, but can he level the country up when living standards are going down? labour s lucy powell has big plans for the bbc what s the problem she s trying to fix? and remember this act of courage? marina ovsyannikova famously interrupted live tv in russia to protest against the war in ukraine. she ll tell us about her astonishing escape. translation: i was thinking it was better for me translation: i was thinking it was better for me to translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to - translation: i was thinking it was better for me to go back to russia, | bet
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two-faced. dominique strauss-kahn wants a u.s. judge to dismiss a lawsuit against him linked to a sexual assault case. the criminal charges were dropped but the accusers filed a civil case. the former imf chief claims he has diplomatic immunity when the case was filed. i m zain verjee in world business today starts next. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. this is world business today. the top stories this tuesday, september 27th. at home and abroad, greek transit workers stage another strike as prime minister prepares to meet in berlin. delhi s plan to redraw the poverty line cause a political firestorm in india. a sticky situation for employers in france. workers throw out their to-do lists and find a new use for the humble post-it note. meanwhile, though, let s get straight to the stock markets in europe which are again posting strong gains in the early trade on tuesday. stocks in london, frankfort, in madrid, actually and in rome milan rather opene
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if it is in an insured account in a bank, it is absolutely protected. there s no way you can lose it. i think for money that needs to be absolutely safe and you need to have quick access to an insured depository account is the best place. there was some fear at some point you would run out of money. right. how do you not run out of money if the banks fail? i don t think that would ever happen. as a precaution, we increased our borrowing lines with the treasury, borrow up to $500 billion if we needed to. i don t see a scenario that we would have to do it. we are industry self-insured and went into the year with $66 billion in cash. to highly oversimplify, is it like an insurance policy? it is. the banks pay a premium to us for the deposit insurance and that s what we use when we close things and we ll obviously take losses when we have to. we pay off the losses. sometimes you don t take a loss. sometimes you pay off the bank. sometimes we don t. usually we do, but not al